ATLANTA — Actress Reese Witherspoon was arrested on a disorderly conduct charge after a state
trooper told her to stay in the car while her husband was given a field sobriety test and she
refused.

The trooper noticed the car driven by her husband wasn’t staying in its lane early Friday, so he
stopped the car. Her husband, James Toth, reeked of alcohol, the report said.

Witherspoon got out of the car twice and was warned that she would be arrested if she left the
car again, the report said.

As Trooper 1st Class J. Pyland tested Toth, “Mrs. Witherspoon began to hang out the window and
say that she did not believe that I was a real police officer,” Pyland wrote. “I told Mrs.
Witherspoon to sit on her butt and be quiet.”

Toth was charged with driving under the influence.

At that point, the report says, Witherspoon got out of the car again. She “stated that she was a
‘U.S. citizen’ and that she was allowed to ‘stand on American ground,’ ” the report states. Pyland
then arrested her.

Late last night, Witherspoon released a statement saying she was “deeply embarrassed” and she
apologized for her “disrespectful” behavior.